Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law. - Lawrence Lessig

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Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

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About Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig (born 3 June 1961) is an American academic and political activist. He is most famous as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. He is a director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons, a board member of the Software Freedom Law Center, an advisory board member of the Sunlight Foundation and a former board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Also Known As: Larry Lessig
Alternative Names: Lester Lawrence Lessig III
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"E assim, quando os geeks e os tecnólogos defendem as tecnologias dos novos Armstrongs ou irmãos Wright, muitos de nós nos tornamos simplesmente hostis. O bom senso não fica revoltado. Diferentemente como no caso dos coitados dos Causbys, o bom senso está do lado dos donos das propriedades nessa guerra. Diferentemente dos afortunados irmãos Wright, a Internet não inspirou uma revolução do nosso lado.
A minha esperança é trazer o bom senso de volta ao nosso lado. Estou cada vez mais impressionado com o poder de tal idéia de propriedade intelectual, e mais ainda, com seu poder para bloquear o pensamento crítico feito contra os poderosos. Jamais houve em nossa história um período em que tanto da nossa "cultura" tinha um "dono" como atualmente. E nunca antes houve um período aonde a concentração de poder para controlar os usos da cultura foi tão inquestionavelmente aceita como o é atualmente."

J. C. Watts is the only black member of the Republican Party in leadership. He's going to resign from Congress. He's been there seven and a half years. He's had enough. Nobody can believe it. Nobody in Washington can believe it. ... In an interview two days ago, Watts said, Here's the problem with Washington: "If you are explaining, you are losing." If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem. Six years after this battle began, we're still explaining. We're still explaining and we are losing. They frame this as a massive battle to stop theft, to protect property. ... They extend copyrights perpetually. They don't get how that in itself is a form of theft. A theft of our common culture. We have failed in getting them to see what the issues here are and that's why we live in this place where a tradition speaks of freedom and their controls take it away.

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